Five days after coalition air strikes helped rebels push back Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces from the outskirts of Benghazi, their advance has stalled at gates of the eastern Libyan town of Ajdabiya.
Libyan rebels on the road between Ajdabiya and Benghazi
Both sides seem to be digging in for the long haul, understanding that this battle could decide their fortunes.
Little news has emerged from the town, where thousands of civilians are thought to be trapped.
They are the lucky ones.
Murad Ali was trying to collect the ash-like shadows in the back of a brunt-out pick up, the unrecognisable remains of what was once an entire family trapped in the crossfire, when anti-aircraft guns homed in on his little aid convoy.
"I fell to the sand and dragged myself on my elbows to my car," he said on Thursday, at the Jellah Hospital in Benghazi, with his head swaddled in bandages.
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